Student Resources

DEPARTMENT OF DANCE SLOs

May 2019

Vision statement: The Department of Dance at UNC Charlotte offers a diverse, open-access curriculum and awards Bachelor of Arts degrees and certificates. Through our commitments to creative practice, inquiry, performance, pedagogy, inclusivity, cultural awareness, and community engagement, we aspire to develop dance professionals and dance aware-citizens, to help build UNC Charlotte’s identity as an urban research university, and to hold a unique place among dance programs nationally.

SLO 1: Creative Practice and Inquiry (covering all modes of communication, including written and oral communication skills)

Knowledges/ Ways of Knowing/ Habits of Mind and Body

Generate ideas through: exploration (physical, technological, and/or aural); analysis of and response to existing works of art and scholarship; and in relationship to political and social ideas and environments

Compose ideas into communications (performed, written, oral) that are structurally, aesthetically, and intellectually sound and sensitive to diverse communities.

Demonstrate the ability to express and communicate evidence, ideas, and opinions through clear and cogent writing.

SLO 4: Professional and Leadership Skills

Develop the ability to think and work across areas of knowledge and practice.

Develop the habits of self-education and lifelong learning, especially by regularly reading and attending arts events.

Strengthen self- discipline, organizational skills, and confidence. · Display abilities to work independently and in collaboration with others.

Strengthen interpersonal skills, including the capacity for problem solving, conflict resolution, and inter-generational and multi-cultural communication.

Demonstrate appropriate professional habits: be on time, work with energy and commitment, invest in personal rehearsal and reflection, display leadership skills and communityengagement by helping others.

Prepare for graduate-level study and/or jobs in dance professions through internships, independent projects, or by participating in a faculty-led research project.

SLO 5: Community-Building and Cultural Awareness Competencies

Knowledges/ Ways of Knowing/ Habits of Mind and Body

Develop an introductory knowledge of theories that impact understandings of individuals (identity) and communities (representations).

Develop abilities in self-reflection and sensitivity to diverse communities and peoples and apply them across dance experiences. Intercultural awareness, multicultural awareness.